print email comment close Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombings URL: http://www.bplonline.org/resources/Digital_Project/SixteenthStBaptistBomb.asp Description: "On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church [in Birmingham, Alabama] and killed four little girls. These powerful images, newspaper clippings, and documents show the immediate and widespread destruction of the tragedy and heartbreak that inspired a movement." From the Birmingham Public Library. Publisher: Birmingham Public Library Extra Keywords civil rights black history Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- History Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations Bombings -- Alabama -- Birmingham Civil rights movements -- United States -- History LII Database Information: Record 20851 created by Maria Brandt on 03/07/2006 Last modification on 03/07/2006 Published: 03/09/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20851